The following example uses the Coating.jmp data table. This quality characteristic of interest is the Weight 2 column. An X-chart and an S chart for the process are shown in Figure 3.19.
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Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Quality Control/Coating.jmp.
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Select Analyze > Quality and Process > Control Chart > XBar.
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Select Weight 2 and click Process.
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Select Sample and click Sample Label.
The Sample Size option should automatically change to Sample Grouped by Sample Label.
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Figure 3.19 X and S Charts for Varying Subgroup Sizes
Weight 2 has several missing values in the data, so you might notice the chart has uneven limits. Although, each sample has the same number of observations, samples 1, 3, 5, and 7 each have a missing value.

Help created on 7/12/2018